The Work App

This app has completely transformed the way I see my thoughts and emotions. The process helps me slow down, question my beliefs, and recognize patterns that I never noticed before. Each time I use it, I feel lighter, clearer, and more grounded in peace. It truly is life changing.

Wonderful app. Simple. Easy. Effective.

Thank you so much for the app

The Work is important.
I believe it is primordial that the app has a “draft” mode that allows you to work through any worksheet as if you had just started it.
I have “lost” work because I had to stop working on the worksheet (ran out of time, life happens, interruptions...) and when I try to go back to it to finish it, the incomplete worksheet is in my work journal but the “edit” function only allows some of the things (add a turnaround but not the 3 situations, for example) to be added (edited in), but does not allow for you to follow the worksheet workflow as if you had just started it.
It is great that everything I put in the first go is automatically saved.
Now just need to be able to continue the work already started at a different time/session.

App will not open

I heard Katie mention that they are working on the app again. If this is true, please include dark mode in the update! The white interface is killing my eyes at night when I want to do the Work before bed.

Also please update the design to allow more space inside each text box and allow scrolling. Landscape mode is needed for the iPad version. Lastly the way the emotions list pops up very tiny could be improved (and the emotions could be alphabetized!).

Thank you for this app, it's making a difference in my life.

Have downloaded the app 2 times and it still won’t open

I can see how this app will be more helpful than the paper worksheets I never have on me when I want to do the work, but please make the tweak to allow it to be viewed horizontally when I have it attached to my keyboard to type out my thoughts. Please! thank you!

I am using it for the first time, and while it definitely helps me do “the work“, the app can be very irritating in that you can’t see your full answers, and when I went back to adjust something I’d spent a long time thinking about and writing down, it deleted all of it. It frustrated me enough to stop using it for now.

If you write simple, short answers, it will work for you, but sometimes there’s a lot more to write to get at the deeper levels of “the work“.

Extremely valuable!

I recently purchased this app because I love the flexibility of using it while I’m traveling. I have only done 2 worksheets and now it crashes each time I try and open it. If I dump the app and try to reinstall will it make me purchase it again?

I’ve been doing the work for a few years and this podcast supports my understanding and soothes me in times of worry. Cannot overstate the improvement in my peace of mind!

I love The Work and thank you for making this app. In this review, I’m reviewing the app itself.

I hesitated before buying this even after reading many of Katie’s books and watching hours of sessions. The app hasn’t been updated in nearly 4 years which made me worried it was developed for old phones and then abandoned.

It feels a little clunky on newer phones. The screen space feels unnecessarily constrained die to the black bars.

Entering text is more difficult. I think this is because the keyboard isn’t the modern one that fits iPhones without the home button (iPhone X and later). It interferes with my typing habits enough to cause me difficulty typing. This is probably not noticeable on iPhones with home buttons.

Other interface elements could be tidied and modernized. The navigation between steps in the work are a hard to interact with, and skipping back very far is slow (I gave up fixing a spelling error in my belief because I only noticed it at the turnarounds, yes I can go back and edit it later).

If you accidentally add a turnaround you don’t need, you end up having to put some filler text permanently there because it doesn’t let you leave it blank. I can’t find any way to remove a turn around once it’s added. I also couldn’t see what turn arounds I’d already written after adding the one I didn’t need. Going back from that empty turn around acts like I haven’t done any turnarounds, so I thought it deleted them. I’d love to be able to see all the turn arounds I’ve written already when I’m trying to write the next one so I don’t repeat myself.

Overall, the work itself is great and this app is worth the purchase if you are like me and work better on my phone than paper. I’m impressed with how well it guides you through. The app itself could be better with some attention and modernization. I almost didn’t buy it because it looked abandoned, and I might not be the only one making that choice.

Turn around: I’m a little clunky and have some glitches. (Yep, also true, and opinionated, and long winded, LOL) thank you!

I am delighted with how easy it is to use this app. It makes it much easier to follow the inquiry process. However, using this app on an iPad with a keyboard, and trying to read sidewise, is very uncomfortable. Make the app work in landscape mode on an iPad and I will up the number of stars.

The Work is so powerful but the app misses on a couple of easy to fix points; 1: Unable to put it in landscape mode on my ipad to use the keyboard. 2: It needs to be lockable. Please help with these two issues!